How to Slay a Wizard by Owen Benjamin
My Review
A masterclass in diffusing word magic. Defining gaslighting. Empowerment first class. You are enough. Owen writes like he talks and you can hear him narrating this book to you. Top level wizard-slayer with comedic overtone that ignites imagination. High recco.
From The Wizard of Oz and Edward Bernays to Covid’s “Can’t Breathe”; from John Wilkes Booth and Zoolander to George Soros’ and Steve Bannon’s wizardy. Owen relates the substrate of mind control across decades and objectives — with punch through insight.
They create nothing. They lie in cold corners obfuscating, redirecting, and criticising. It’s the nature of evil.
Before you read this book hide under your cardboard desk because there is a nuclear bomb coming…
“I might be wrong but I’m not lying.” — Owen Benjamin


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Joseph Voelbel designs learning curriculum and writes about money, systems, and meaning. Author of Pay Attention to Bitcoin (2024), a crash-course primer on sound money, Nineteen Stories (2017), an exploration of the unknown, and This Plant Will Grow (2026), a children's book about a plant that becomes a rainforest.